Category Archives: editorial
Remember, Remember the 2th of November
Philadelphia, 1787: At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried by a lady as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation, Benjamin Franklin was asked “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a … Continue reading
Dependence Day: the Sunday Not-So-Funnies
When you spend more than you make you go into debt. Congress has been spending more than Americans make for 25 years now, spending on foolish entitlements for the sole purpose of staying in office. They have taken your money … Continue reading
The South, Texas & the end of the American Idyll
About eight weeks ago economist and commentator Walter Williams, a man I respect most highly for his constant clarity and vision, wrote this. I don’t usually publish other’s work in toto but this is just too damn good to abridge. … Continue reading
Elections: Sparta, Stalin & the First Undocumented President
Confession: I didn’t vote in the last Presidential election. Faced with a choice between a senile liberal guilty of engineering passage of a bill restraining First Amendment Rights (McCain-Feingold), and an avowed Marxist, and possibly undocumented alien President who has … Continue reading
Formula Yawn
Had a fine day in Charleston, SC Sunday. That night I realized I had missed the Monaco GP. Don’t watch Formula One anymore, but if you still care here’s a tip: you only have to watch the first lap. After … Continue reading
“Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” is May 20
Recently, Comedy Central cowed in terror and edited a South Park episode depicting Mohammed dressed in a bear suit, after receiving threats from Islamic Radicals, who no doubt even now are fomenting plans for America’s demise in some fetid Brooklyn … Continue reading
iPad ~ the media IS the message
Bill Paley was the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant. His father, Samuel Paley, ran a cigar company. As the company became increasingly successful, in 1927, his father and some business partners bought a struggling Philadelphia-based radio network of 16 … Continue reading
Down On The Ol’ Plantation
‘I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.’ Stephen Jay Gould, 1980 Nearly half of US … Continue reading
Tax the Poor
How many millionaires do you know? Real millionaires, people who, not counting their homes, can cover a check for $1,000,000.00? None? Some? A whole roomful? Oh, we all know of BIll Gates and A-Rod but how many millionaires have you … Continue reading